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Flower-Pot somewhat Better Pcrform’d, but a little Endamaged by the Sost-nesi of the Stone. The Backside, Opposite to the Inscrtption, is adorn'dwith a pretty iort of teuiUage, designed to sili up the Vacant Space. OntheTop, in a pretty deep Cavity, is a Füll Face of a Man, almost such asthey Paint the Sun or Füll Moon withal, with a Cap upon his Head, ofwhich as yet I cannot comprehend the Design.

s ome Roman XXL These Inscriptions were found near to a Village call’d Laneas er ,Ittutil^ncur Dur- about s Miles North West trom Durham, which I am mlly perswaded hasham;bjiMr.chr. been the Longo'Vicum of the Romam. This Place has been a very considerablcl p iU g‘" 11 ' l66 ' Place in these Parts, and their Watlmg-street lies through it. Tisonthe TopofaHlll, which has a Descent on Three Sides; Towards the West it isover-look’d by a High Hili, and almost Eastward from it about aQuarterof a Mt/e, standsthe present Lanchefitr , aTolerable Country Village, witha pretty Church, which bcfore the Reformation was Endow’d with aDeanery and 6 Prebends. The Form of this Place has been Square, andFortify’d with a Thick, Strong, Stone Wall Faced with Hewen Stone.Within the Wall are fand bave been formerly) nothingbut Ruinous HeapsofStones; as also without the Wall too, efpecially towards the East. 'Tisprobable the Buildings Within the Wall have been all Publick, such as theStation for the Sohlten, Templa, Palaces. &c. or (which I am more en-»lin’d ro think) there has been nothing but the Lodging of the GarrisonWithin the Wall. This I rathet supposc, because the Infcriptton of Gordi-anus was not found here, but about a Hundred Yards from the Wall to-wards the East, near which place the Largest Stones are found; and 1 myseit above a Year ago found part of a Large E arthen Um, near this Place,within which I suppose there had been a Lefler, sitch I retnember was foundat another Village not far from this, which 1 am perswaded has been an-other Colony. There is no doubt but this Colony has been Adorned withmany Beautiful PaUces , and other Sumptuous Buildings; and perhaps theBalneum cum Baßlica, mention’d tn one of these Injciptions has been That solong in vain söught for at Rome.

<omf Roman XXII. I have procured some of the Roman Cotns Lately Plow’d up aboutRa'iphTiwresby." Nottingham ; but they prove Comtnon, and most of Tetricus, rho’ some al-»..14.1.0.208. sbof Gallienus, Viblorinus, and Claudius Gothicus.

im°e" Mr. fthe Lady Cambdens Lecturer at Wakefeld') has brought nie

fcuin” Roman some very Fair Coitis, or rathet Imprejfons upon Clay, which he rescu’d fromrh rit7 h^ome Labourers, who inDelving in the Fields near Thorp onthe HUI, foundp. 735. y-n ' 234 ' a considerable Numberof them. At first we could not imagine for whatUse they were Design’d, but upon a stricter View, it appears plainly, theywere tor the Corning, or rat'ner Counterfeitmg , of the Roman Moneys, thatWretched Artit seems beinginVogue 1500 Years ago, for they are in-dilputably of that Antiquity, and are really very Dexterousiy done. Theyhave Round the Impreßtou a Rim, about half the Thickness of the Roman

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